Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Werth Nicolas)(Pevná vazba)

Cannibal Island: Death in a Siberian Gulag (Werth Nicolas)(Pevná vazba)

A searing historical account of a tragic episode of the Stalinist terror During the spring of 1933, Stalin's police rounded up nearly one hundred thousand people as part of the Soviet regime's 'cleansing' of Moscow and Leningrad and deported them to Siberia. Many of the victims were sent to labor

Genetics and Ethics in Global Perspective (Wertz Dorothy C.)(Pevná vazba)

Dorothy Wertz and John Fletcher pioneered the first international study of ethical and social issues in genetics in 18 nations. This book reports and discusses their second and more representative study in 36 nations. The survey focused on actual situations that occur in the practice of medical

Death in the Garden City (Dams Jeanne M.)(Pevná vazba)

American Anglophile Dorothy Martin heads to the picturesque city of Victoria on Vancouver Island to investigate a series of petty crimes - that soon turn deadly. When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friends to look into a series of petty crimes that are

Death in the Garden City (Dams Jeanne M.)(Pevná vazba)

American Anglophile Dorothy Martin heads to the picturesque city of Victoria on Vancouver Island to investigate a series of petty crimes - that soon turn deadly. When Dorothy Martin and her ex-policeman husband Alan are asked by some good friends to look into a series of petty crimes that are

Ride: Cycle the World (Dk Eyewitness)(Pevná vazba)

Power up mountain passes in Italy's Dolomites, tackle Bolivia's infamous Death Road or go island-hopping in Japan: Ride takes you around the world in search of adventure on two wheels. Covering 100 incredible cycling routes, this inspirational book will make you reach for your handlebars, whether

Modern Spaces: A Subjective Atlas of 20th-Century Interiors (Grospierre Nicolas)(Pevná vazba)

In this follow-up to Modern Forms, award winning photographer Nicolas Grospierre presents a visually arresting archive of remarkable modernist interiors found throughout the

Siberian Haiku (Vile Jurga)(Pevná vazba)

An intense, touching, and informative glimpse into life in exile One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-old Algiukas awakes to the sound of Russian soldiers pounding on the door. His family is

Cwen - 'A wild ride!' MARGARET ATWOOD (Albinia Alice)(Pevná vazba)

A mysterious death, a band of women and a remote island where anything is

Gyo (2-In-1 Deluxe Edition) (Ito Junji)(Pevná vazba)

Something is rotten in Okinawa... The floating smell of death hangs over the island. What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene... So begins Tadashi and Kaori's spiral into the horror and stench of the sea. Here is the creepiest masterpiece of horror manga ever from the creator of

Cumberland Island: Footsteps in Time (Doster Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

Cumberland Island is the southernmost and largest barrier island on the Georgia coast, with a history that predates the arrival of Western civilization in the Americas. Currently, it has few full- time residents, but its beauty brings thousands of visitors each year from around the world. Day

Buried - Life, Death and Revolution in Egypt (Hessler Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Recovering Hispanic Religious (Kanellos Nicolas)(Pevná vazba)

The primary role played by religion in the development of the Spanish nation in the Iberian Peninsula and its subsequent role in the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas has been well studied. Similarly, Hispanics around the world and in the United States have been characterized in

Shamanism: Spiritual Growth, Healing, Consciousness (MacKinnon Christa)(Pevná vazba)

Shamanism is a spiritual practice that has persisted since ancient times in Siberian, Mongolian, Indian, Native American, South American, Australian and other cultures around the world. Originally shamanism developed from our tribal ancestors' ways of exploring and working with the universal forces

1837: Russia's Quiet Revolution (Werth Paul)(Pevná vazba)

Historians often think of Russia before the 1860s in terms of conservative stasis, when the gendarme of Europe secured order beyond the country's borders and entrenched the autocratic system at home. This book offers a profoundly different vision of Russia under Nicholas I. Drawing on an extensive

Mrs Death Misses Death (Godden Salena)(Pevná vazba)

LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZEMrs Death tells her intoxicating story in this life-affirming fire-starter of a novel Mrs Death has had enough. She is exhausted from spending eternity doing her job and now she seeks someone to unburden her conscience to. Wolf Willeford, a troubled young writer,

Death in the Congo: Murdering Patrice Lumumba (Gerard Emmanuel)(Pevná vazba)

Death in the Congo is a gripping account of a murder that became one of the defining events in postcolonial African history. It is no less the story of the untimely death of a national dream, a hope-filled vision very different from what the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of the Congo became in

Island Dreams: Mapping an Obsession (Francis Gavin)(Pevná vazba)

In Island Dreams, Gavin Francis examines our collective fascination with islands. He blends stories of his own travels with psychology, philosophy, and great voyages from literature, shedding new light on the importance of islands and isolation in our collective consciousness.--GAVIN

Hoakes Island - A Fiendish Puzzle Adventure (Friel Helen)(Pevná vazba)

Henry Hoakes has gone missing and Hoakes Island Amusement Park is in grave

Anatomy of a Killing - Life and Death on a Divided Island (Cobain Ian (Y))(Pevná vazba)

The untold story of an IRA unit, and a killing that has echoed across the

Death by Stupidity (Southwell David)(Pevná vazba)

Accidents happen. Luck runs out. Death can strike at any time--and sometimes in the most bizarre ways. This hilariously creative collection chronicles hundreds of the craziest true stories, from the cyclist who swallowed his own dentures, to a vegetarian killed by a frozen leg of lamb, to the

The Death Drive: Why Societies Self-Destruct (Hageback Niklas)(Pevná vazba)

Sigmund Freud's death drive remains among the most controversial concepts in psychoanalysis, something which post-Freudians never could reach consensus on. Over time, it fell into oblivion. Recent developments, however, have actualized the interest in the death drive as political upheavals and

Nicholas Nickleby (Dickens Charles)(Pevná vazba)

After the death of his father, Nicholas Nickleby becomes a schoolteacher in a boys' school in Yorkshire to support his family. There he sees injustices and cruelty and stands up to the schoolmasters to right these wrongs. Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colourful comic strip form,

Anna Akhmatova: Poems (Akhmatova Anna)(Pevná vazba)

From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in 1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary

True Queen (Cho Zen)(Pevná vazba)

A magical adventure set in Regency London, fairyland and an enchanted island: war looms in the lands of fairy as two sisters are separated, plots thicken and there are rumours of a new contender for fairy's